Farewell to Oscar Wilde Bookstore

by Jeff and Will | Feb 14, 2009

The bad news came via email on February 3: the Oscar Wilde Bookstore on Christopher Street, after 41 years, set a closing date of March 29. Yes, independent books stores have become an endangered species over the past several years between the rise of Amazon.com and...

One Icy River and a Plane

by Jeff | Jan 17, 2009

The thing to do downtown over the past day has been to go see what there is to see of US Airways 1549, which was brought down to lower Manhattan and tied off to the seawall just north of the Battery Park City commuter ferry terminal. Obviously the police are keeping...

Keith Haring “Figure With Heart” Balloon

by Jeff | Nov 27, 2008

One of the new balloons in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was Keith Haring’s “Figure With Heart,” based on Haring’s 1987 ink on paper drawing “Untitled (Figure with Heart).” Haring would have been 50 this...

Ordinals Bloodbath, Wizards Triumph

by Jeff | Nov 23, 2008

It was a night that started with a disastrous loss and ended with a fantastic win. The Ordinals slump continued as we lost 16-1 to Wolfpack. Actually that 16-1 is only an approximate score because once there’s a 10 goal margin, the score doesn’t go up on...

It’s Beginning To Look A Little Like Christmas

by Jeff | Nov 17, 2008

On the way to work this morning I saw my first Christmas tree of the season. The workers in Bryant Park were putting the lights and getting ready for the official lighting later this month. Since I was in the park, I wandered over to Fifth Avenue and shot pictures of...

Beautiful Day for First Bryant Park Skate

by Jeff | Oct 31, 2008

As you can see it was a beautiful day to take the first skate of the season at The Pond at Bryant Park (the view is from a web cam perched on top of the New York Public Library). It was sunny and in the high 50s. That made the ice a little slushy, but since all I was...